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Stacie Taranto - Kitchen Table Politics - 9780812248975 - V9780812248975
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Kitchen Table Politics

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Description for Kitchen Table Politics Hardcover. Kitchen Table Politics investigates the role that the grassroots activism of middle-class, mostly Catholic homemakers played in the development of conservatism in New York State-and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values." Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .

Most histories of modern American politics tell a similar story: that the Sunbelt, with its business friendly environment, right-to-work laws, and fierce spirit of frontier individualism, provided the seedbed for popular conservatism. Stacie Taranto challenges this narrative by positioning New York State as a central battleground. In 1970, under the governorship of Republican Nelson Rockefeller, New York became one of the first states to legalize abortion. By 1980, however, conservative, antifeminist Republicans with broad suburban appeal—symbolized by figures such as Ronald Reagan—had usurped power from these so-called Rockefeller Republicans. What happened during the intervening decade?
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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Politics & Culture in Modern America
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812248975
SKU
V9780812248975
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About Stacie Taranto
Stacie Taranto is Associate Professor of History at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Reviews for Kitchen Table Politics
"Taranto takes us into the daily lives, subjective experiences, and political activities of women whose import in reshaping the political history of the late twentieth century has not been appreciated. This book traces how and why, between the 1960s and 1980, these women were transformed from apolitical homemakers into activists . . . Taranto considers with empathy and insight the ... Read more

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